Given I *know* people resigned over the Google Plus Real Names fiasco, I expect if they don't withdraw they'll start hemorrhaging employees, and it will be the more talented ones at that (that have more resources and can find other opportunities the easiest).

For all it's flaws, most people at Google actually are some brand of idealistic. Doesn't mean they're perfect, or right, or don't screw up, or understand life outside their little bubble, but I get sick of this meme of Google as some evil empire. If Google was trying to be evil, they'd be doing a much better job of it,

I believe in Google's case they will often actually buy capacity as part of funding new projects. So they'll buy 30MW say, of a 100MW project. This helps give certainty to projects, helps push some over into viability, and increases the pool of available renewable energy.

Google then does likely sell it, I believe they're a licenced utility in many jurisdictions. They may even see a profit on it, but it will be real ownership, as in part of the generation plant, not futures.

Why on earth would the whole /8 revert to IANA? As per the *summary*, even, that whole block is delegated to APNIC.

A world beyond North America, bizarre I know.

Name a case where Google has been the aggressor in a patent lawsuit.

Google learned the hard way they need to play the game, which means patenting as much as they can so they don't get sued out the wazoo.

On the plus side I can't recall a case where they've been the ones to bring suit against a party (first).

OpenSSL is far far from great (the API, my eyes, they burn! don't get me started on openssl error codes/messages), but it's not quite the steaming pile of something smelly GnuTLS is.

Although it has improved somewhat over the past few years, at least on the "other SSL clients will actually interoperate" side of things.

Is anyone other than Debian zealous enough to use GnuTLS?

I rarely agree with Howard Chu of OpenLDAP fame, but... http://www.openldap.org/lists/...

I would also be wary of taking some of these articles at face value.

You're a big company. You're obliged to comply with stupid asshat law that some ${CITIZENS} approved by proxy through their representative. In an effort to discourage such requests, you do your best to inflate "costs" which you are permitted to recover from the requesting organization....

Suddenly some reporters with slightly less than two brain cells to rub together equate this to "selling customer data".

You mean like a micro-USB MHL port that supports the USB charging spec? That my past three phones have had?

Though you'll only get 900mA@5V with data transfer or MHL active, unless you have MHL 3.0 (which is unikely at this point).

(Okay, not a microusb cable, but it can use the same physical port, provides charging and remote instructions, and adapters start at about $5)

As a bonus it will probably actually work directly with your TV if you dig the cable thing.

I think I spent more time copying out BASIC programs from the manual than playing games on it ;-) (I was six or seven at the time).

My parents noticed my interest and convinced some local guy running a class to take me (normally he only took older kids). He had a room full of Plus4's (going for slightly esoteric Commodore models here...)

But you could look and see if Jet is within your budget.

http://www.obsidian.com.au/products/jet/jet-isp-telco

At the very least a base install will give you some billing software and hooks for other automation. It wouldn't hurt to drop them a line, at any rate.

disclaimer: I used to work for obsidian ~6 years ago. they're a small company, but full of bright people and they have a lot of experience in the area. if jet isn't for you i have no doubts they can at least give you some honest advice on what to look at instead that's within your budget, fits your needs.

Of course that would require a newspaper to make a profit... I don't think squeezing tech companies is a long term viable business strategy though.

But that's not the case. Google honours such requests.

They want to force Google to index them *and* pay them. (Comments from Eric Schmidt that Google might have to stop indexing the sites if such a law was passed, was decried as a "threat")

I only see a problem with this if you're *not* a rent seeking industry organization or an artist with an incredible sense of entitlement.

If you're not one of those, then your opinion doesn't really matter, does it?

$600k for a 3br house? You're talking like 90+ minutes from the city, right? ;-)

$400k+ for a decent 1br+study apartment in the inner suburbs.